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Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans in the City

Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans in the City

by Katherine Huggins and Julia Mueller | May 24, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

MINNEAPOLIS — Tucked away on a side street near downtown, the Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy offers its Native American clientele the services of any ordinary drugstore — it dispenses critical medication and provides consultation on treatments. But there are two key...
Bison Pastrami, Anyone? Preschool Assistant Ensures Kids Get to Know Indigenous Foods

Bison Pastrami, Anyone? Preschool Assistant Ensures Kids Get to Know Indigenous Foods

by Ariel Gans and Katherine Huggins | May 24, 2022 | Education, Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare

MINNEAPOLIS — Bison pastrami is not typical school lunch fare, but it’s a crowd favorite at a preschool in Minneapolis. Fawn Youngbear-Tibbetts — the seemingly always on-the-go coordinator of Indigenous foods at the Wicoie Nandagikendan Early Childhood Urban Immersion...
Adapting a Zero Suicide Approach to Native Communities

Adapting a Zero Suicide Approach to Native Communities

by Jordan Anderson | May 24, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

May 2, 2022 – Edwina Valdo found herself on the receiving end of a desperate phone call last year on the suicide crisis line at Acoma Pueblo Behavioral Health Services in New Mexico. Valdo, whose regular job is as a grant manager, was filling in because the pandemic...
Health clinics serving Native Americans in cities grapple with limited funding, scarce resources

Health clinics serving Native Americans in cities grapple with limited funding, scarce resources

by Julia Shapero and Michael Korsh | May 1, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

Health-care organizations that support Native Americans living in urban areas receive minimal federal funding, even though more than 70 percent of the U.S. Native population lives in metropolitan areas. The 41 Indian health organizations serving them, which the...
How Indian Health Board’s Laz Carreon Weathered the COVID-19 Storm

How Indian Health Board’s Laz Carreon Weathered the COVID-19 Storm

by Catherine Buchaniec and Julia Shapero | Apr 30, 2022 | Politics, Urban Indian Healthcare

Laz Carreon was on parental leave helping care for his newborn daughter when a mysterious respiratory illness first appeared in Wuhan, China. As the illness spread through China, it caught his attention. An experienced registered nurse and former National Guard...
Native medical students work to overcome barriers

Native medical students work to overcome barriers

by Jeannie Kopstein and Annie Klingenberg | Apr 26, 2022 | Urban Indian Healthcare

According to Native medical students, there are immense financial and systematic barriers in the way of native students pursuing careers in the medical field. Groups like the American Indian Center of Chicago and the Association of Native Medical Students are...
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